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Reinstalling windows on my aliemqare laptop Alienware M17x R4
I have been trying to reinstall windows on this computer serveral times but still keep getting errors. My hard drive crashed so I lost recovery partition. Everytime it gets close to finshing install it gives me an error thats says Windows Setup could not configure Windows to run on this computer's hardware. I know the hardware is fine. It was working before new install. Bios reads the harddrive and system check, checks out ok on it. I was thinking I need to install drivers during or before install just not sure how. I also tried when you are on partition screen there is an option for load driver but when I browse off of my usb storage says no files found. I also dont have resource disc that came with computer. I have a new bought windows cd. If anyone can give me some suggestions I would really appreciate it. Thanks Tim
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November 24th, 2014 19:00
Hard-drives don't crash for no reason. It's likely bad ... preventing Windows from installing.
If it's a Seagate ... Seagate has a checking utility you can run on it. Same for others.
You can also just install a spare drive to test.
If you don't store a lot of files on laptop, I suggest a SSD (240gb or larger) instead of spinning HDD.